Global Fastener News

SHORT TAKES / COMPANY NEWS

John Wolz

� Jackie Bettencourt is the new purchasing manager for Atlas Screw & Specialty. Bettencourt was assistant purchasing manager for the Zelenda Metric division.
Atlas, a division of Pawtucket Fasteners L.P., supplies packaged fasteners to industrial and mill supply wholesalers with branch locations in Valley View, OH; Edison, NJ; and Charlotte, NC. Pawtucket, founded in 1882, manufactures and distributes fasteners through its Bell, Sharon Philstone, Stillwater and Zelenda Metric divisions. Atlas is headquartered at 11 Cove St., New Bedford, MA 02744-1389. Tel: 508 990-2054. Fax 508 993-3687.

� AVK Industrial Products received the Gold Award for 1999 DaimlerChrysler suppliers for delivery, quality, engineering, minority sourcing and QS 9000 commitment.
AVK is a division of SPS Technology subsidiary Avibank Mfg. Inc. AVK manufactures blind installed threaded inserts, stud fasteners and related installation tooling and is headquartered at 25323 Rye Canyon Rd., Valencia, CA 91355. Tel: 661 257-2329. Fax 661 257-8043. Web: www.avkfasteners.com

� Kelly Slack is the new vice president of sales & marketing at Aztech Locknut Company, president Mark Kaindl announced. Slack has 20 years of sales, marketing and operations experience, including vendor-managed inventory at Camcar Textron.
Aztech manufactures and imports all-metal and nylon insert locknuts, free-spinning nuts and internally threaded specials. Aztech is headquartered at 2675 White Oak Circle, Aurora, IL 69504. Tel: 630 236-3200 or 800 321-5625. Fax 630 236-3210. Web: www.aztechlocknut.com

� EFC International opened an Atlanta warehouse and named Ed Self branch manager, executive vice president of sales David Hebert announced.
The new branch is located at 337 Currie Dr., Alpharetta, GA 30005. Tel: 800 541-9019. Fax 770 663-8484.
Self has been in the fastener industry for 30 years and held management positions with Georgia Industrial Fasteners and Arden Fasteners. He is a former president of the Southeastern Fastener Association.
EFC president Doug Adams named Bloomington, IL, branch manager James Laarman executive vice president based in the St. Louis corporate headquarters.
Reno Fricano succeeds Laarman as branch manager. Fricana will oversee branch activities and outside sales in Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan, Ohio and Canada. Fricano is a Certified Quality Engineer and was with Tinnerman for the past 10 years.
EFC, which distributes specialty component parts to OEMs and distributors, has facilities in Dallas, Chicago, Charlotte, NC, and Toronto and is headquartered at 1940 Craigshire Rd., St. Louis, MO 63146. Tel: 800 888-3326. Fax 314 434-2902. E-mail: info@efc-intl.com Web: www.efc-intl.com

� Fastar Inc. president Doug Thonus announced Roger Lockett Agencies as rep in Canada.
Lockett is headed by Roger Lockett and located at 20 Scotch St., Erin, Ontario, Canada N0B 1T0. Tel: 519 833-2471. Fax 519 833-0758. E-mail: fastener@sympatico.ca
Fastar supplies spring, coiled, dowel and cotter pins and specials to distributors. Fastar is located at 2 Spook Rock Rd. #E309, Tallman, NY 10982-0929. Tel: 845 369-7990 or 888 327-8275. Fax 845 369-7989. E-mail: sales@fastar.com Web: www.fastar.com

� Forest City Technologies Inc. is expanding from a 14,000 sq ft plant to a 110,000 sq ft facility in the Detroit suburb of Wixom, MI. The new facility is scheduled to open this fall.
The Michigan economic Development Corporation provided tax-free bonds and job training assistance.
Founded in 1956, Forest City provides fastener coatings for adhesion and sealing, corrosion resistance, lubricity, barrier protection and aid in assembly. Forest City processes 1.5 billion parts annually at 10 plants in Ohio, Illinois and Michigan. Forest City�s corporate address is: P.O. Box 86, Wellington, OH 44090. Tel: 440 647-2115. Fax 440 647-2644. E-mail: sales@forestcitytech.com Web: www.forestcitytech.com

� Kanebridge Corporation marked its 25th anniversary by bringing all of its employees from branches in Illinois, Georgia and California and New Jersey headquarters to New York for a weekend.
Kanebridge was founded in 1975 by president Joe McGrath and vice president Bobby Williams.
Kanebridge is a master fastener distributor with 20,000 SKUs and is headquartered at 153 Bauer Dr., Oakland, NJ 07436-3150. Tel: 201 337-2300. Fax 201 337-8806. E-mail: sales@kanebridge.com Web: www.kanebridge.com

� International Fastener Source Guide announced a new European edition of its infastGuide fastener buyers guide, publisher Richard Desormeau announced. The CD-ROM provides for product search by DIN, ISO or ASTM numbers from 1,440 manufacturers and importers from 24 European countries.
InfastGuide was first published in 1996 in a book edition. The first CD-ROM version was published in 1999. PMB 211, 2637 E. Atlantic Blvd., Pompano Beach, FL 33062-4939. Tel: 954 782-9527. Fax 954 782-9723. E-mail: info@infastguide.com Web: www.infastguide.com

� Metal Coatings International Inc. named Chip Fatheringham technical service rep for its corrosion resistant coatings.
Metal Coatings develops and licenses coatings for the metal finishing industries and is headquartered at 275 Industrial Pkwy., Chardon, OH 44024-1083. Tel: 440 285-2231. Fax 440 285-5009.

� Mudge Fasteners expanded into the adhesive, reclosable fastener and industrial tape business as a distributor, president Paul Mudge announced.
Mudge has imported and distributed fasteners for 25 years and is headquartered at 22475 LaPalma Ave., Yorba Linda, CA 92887. Tel: 800 634-0406. Fax 714 692-2129. Web: www.mudgefasteners.com

� President John Gorenflo announced Nord-Lock Inc. moved to 6524 Schamber Dr., Muskegon, MI 49444. Tel: 231 799-1097 or 877 799-1097. Fax 231 789-1792. E-mail: nord-lock@i2k.com Web: www.nord-lock.com
Nord-Lock imports vibration-proof washers and distributes in North America. The move is to a larger space within the same complex.

� Tom Richards is the new quality assurance manager for the Michigan plant of Nylok Fastener Corporation. Richards will assist at other Nylok facilities.
Nylok supplies nylon patch-locking elements for internally and externally threaded self-locking fasteners, locking elements, adhesives, coatings and sealing elements. Nylok is headquartered at 15260 Hallmark Dr., Macomb, MI 48042-4007. Tel: 810 786-0100 or 800 791-7101. Fax 810 786-0598. E-mail: sales@nylokfastener.com Web: www.nylok.com

� Philip Rose is the new vice president of sales & marketing and Ray Williamson the new director of engineering at Powers Fasteners Inc., president Jeffrey Powers announced.
Rose will be responsible for development of global business. Powers recently opened warehouses in Argentina, Colombia, Mexico and Venezuela. Rose was general manager of Powers Fasteners Australasia, a firm which originated as Electrotec Industries, founded by Australia native Rose in 1991.
Williamson joined Powers in 1997 as a sales engineer.
Powers manufactures concrete, masonry and adhesive anchors, roofing fasteners, powder-actuated fastening systems and carbide drill bits. Powers is headquartered at 2 Powers Square, New Rochelle, NY 10801. Tel: 914 235-6300. Fax 914 576-6483. E-mail: info@powers.com Web: www.powers.com

� Struers Inc. has published Structure 35, the Struers Journal of Materialography 2000. Articles include the Metallographic Preparation of Metal Forms, the True Microstructure of Materials, Formation of Nitride Layers in the Nitrocarburizing of Engine Valves, Pull-out During Grinding of Ceramics Containing an Amorphous Phase and a Universal Grinding Disc for the Plane Grinding of Materialographic Specimens.
Published annually since 1981, the magazine is a not-for-profit operation with a global circulation of 35,000. It is printed in English, German, French and Japanese. Articles are written by metallurgists and metallographers.
Struers is part of Denmark-based Struers A/S, which was founded in 1875 by Holdger Struer as a supplier of laboratory equipment. In 1943 Struers began specializing in materialographic preparation equipment with the invention of a machine for electrolytic polishing of metal samples. The U.S. Struers manufactures equipment for metallographic preparation and is headquartered at 810 Sharon Dr., Westlake, OH 44145. Tel: 440 871-0071 or 888 787-8377. Fax 440 871-8188. E-mail: info@struers.com Web: www.struers.com \